Summary
Volatility accelerates the pace of change in global financial markets, driven by evolving macroeconomic dynamics and geopolitical uncertainties. Financial firms face new challenges in navigating the impact of market volatility as they seek to adapt their strategies in mitigating risk and capitalizing on emerging opportunities.
As market dynamics continue to shift, firms must consider how best to enhance their strategic approach to pricing, valuation, and risk management to thrive in volatile market conditions. In this Forum, we will take a deep dive into key factors shaping latest industry challenges and how practitioners leverage robust data-driven insights to identify trends and develop new tactics to maximize growth opportunities.
Key highlights include:
- Macro deep dive: tariffs, trade wars and market volatility
- Trends shaping innovations in private and public markets
- Credit market dynamics and fixed-income valuation
- Evolving trends in risk management and derivatives pricing
- Assessing ETF markets and unlocking dividend yields with robust equities data
- The changing face of data analytics and asset valuation with AI
Who Should Attend
Financial institutions executives
CEOs, CROs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs
Risk management professionals
in financial institutions
Pricing and valuation managers
in banks, asset managers, insurers and other buyside institutions
Quantitative and investment analysts
specialize in driving portfolio decisions with data insights
Front office executives and traders
in investment banks, hedge funds, asset management firms
Investment research professionals
responsible for conducting credit and equity market assessments and forecasts
Agenda
*Agenda is subject to change.
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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jonathan Ablett
Executive Director, Global Economic Modelling Economics & Country Risk
Jonathan leads the S&P Global Market Intelligence team in charge of scenario design and new macroeconomic and sectoral economic models. As part of this work, he helps develop customized macroeconomic scenarios for due diligence, regulatory stress tests, impact analysis, and strategic planning purposes. He leads the team that implements these scenarios, operates the proprietary macroeconomic model, and designs new models for additional client purposes.
Prior to joining S&P Global (now part of S&P Global), Jonathan was an Expert at the McKinsey Global Institute, the think tank of McKinsey and Company, where he specialized in applied economic and strategic analysis for both private and public sector clients. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked at the Massachusetts House Ways & Means Committee developing budget and policy recommendations and the World Bank.
Jonathan holds an M.A. in Economics from McGill University and an M.B.A. from Babson College.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Juan Pablo Albornoz
US Head of Dividend Forecasting
Juan Pablo leads the Dividend Forecasting team for the Americas region. He manages a diverse group of analysts based in Argentina, India, and the United States. Prior to this role, he specialized in dividend forecasting for US and Canadian TMT and Healthcare companies through bottom-up fundamental analysis. He actively participates in public webinars, has published various research reports and regularly engages with clients and industry leaders.
The Dividend Forecasting product helps financial institutions price stocks and ETFs derivatives by delivering precise forecasts of the size and timing of dividend payments based on company and ETF research, market announcements, and unique quantitative insights.
Juan Pablo holds a bachelor's degree in Economics (Hons, magna cum laude) from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. Before joining S&P, he worked as an economic consultant in Argentina, handling macro-financial research, forecasting, business advisory, and engaging with the local press. Juan Pablo actively collaborates ad honorem as a visiting professor in undergraduate Economics courses at UBA.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Luke Armstrong
Head of Buyside Risk, Financial Risk Analytics
Luke Armstrong is Buy Side Risk Product Manager at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has a decade of experience in buy side risk management working at CQS and Bluebay Asset Management. As product manager, he is responsible for the design and build of S&P Global Market Intelligence's next generation buy side risk management platform. Luke holds a BEng in Aerospace Engineering with first class honours from the University of Southampton.
Pictet Asset Management
Benjamin Becker
Head of ETF Distribution
State Street Investment Management
Marcel Benjamin
Vice President, SPDR Fixed Income Group
400 Capital Management
Tristan Blank
Director
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ryan Boyd
Head of Business Development, US Dividend Forecasting
Ryan leads business development for the Dividend Forecasting team in the Americas at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Ryan has almost a decades experience in financial services, capital markets and research. He partners with clients and industry leaders to identify gaps in their workflows and new use cases to develop innovative solutions that will create value, increase efficiencies and solve pressing issues for the industry.
Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the College of Charleston, South Carolina.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
John Cowan
Executive Director, Business Development, Fixed Income Pricing and Reference Data
He has been with S&P Global since 2009 and has served in numerous roles across various products within the credit markets. He works to develop new ideas into product offerings that are beneficial to financial markets and create value for customers with a focus on growth and strategy.
He engages with various customer types and roles across the BuySide, SellSide, Fund Administration, Regulation, Auditors, Trading and Execution services, and others, to ensure customer satisfaction on product solutions while providing key relative financial market updates across fixed income assets. He has worked on various product offerings on the valuation of several key credit instrument types and has a particular focus on the reference data across the fixed income and equity space as well.
Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence division, he has worked at Deloitte and Touche, JP Morgan, and the Bank of New York. John has over 20 years of experience of working with fixed income products and services. He holds a BS in Business Management from the State University of New York, Albany.
HSBC
Murat Demir
Head of Index Delta One Trading Americas
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Tasha Gonska
Managing Director and Global Head of Pricing, Valuations and Reference Data
Pricing, Valuations and Reference Data provides cross-asset derivatives data and valuations, fixed income pricing, terms and conditions reference data, private asset valuations and a variety of complementary solutions across a range of asset classes. During her time at S&P Global, Tasha performed a variety of roles initially joining as part of the derivative valuation team, and most recently looking after business development for the group she now leads.
Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence (previously Markit) in 2012, Tasha was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Interest Rate Derivative Origination Group covering corporate clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom space. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, she assisted clients with their interest rate risk management and helped devise and implement hedging strategies associated with corporate events such as mergers and acquisitions and bond issuances.
Tasha holds a BS in Economics from Duke University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Melissa Gow
Managing Director – Equity Analytic Products
Melissa Gow oversees client facing activities for the global securities finance business, including the product specialist and client services teams, consultancy, marketing, and commentary. She has extensive experience in securities finance and is a frequent speaker at industry events.
Previous industry experience includes roles at Goldman Sachs and Swiss Bank Corporation. Melissa holds an M.B.A from New York University and a B.A. from Georgetown University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Mila Kuznetsov
Managing Director, Global Head of Derivatives Business Development
Mila Kuznetsov is an Executive Director leading the Americas Derivatives Business Development team at S&P Global within Market Intelligence. In her role, she is responsible for Americas derivatives commercial and product strategy across the sell side, buy side, auditors/regulators, and asset servicers.
Prior to joining S&P Global, Mila held multiple leadership roles at key financial services organizations such as Sculptor Capital Management where she was the Global Head of Valuations, Citi as a V.P focused on Equity Derivative Valuations, and at Ernst & Young within financial services for clients in Risk Advisory and Derivative Valuations. In her previous roles, she has implemented new pricing and valuation policies and procedures across multi-asset portfolios (equities, fixed income, derivatives, private assets), led valuation automation projects, and reviewed key valuation questions with internal stakeholders (Valuation Committees) and external stakeholders (auditors, regulators, investors).
Mila graduated from Binghamton University’s School of Management with a Bachelor of Science in Management, Concentration in Finance, and a Minor in Russian and East European Studies.
Goldman Sachs
Lola Lesi
Vice President, Emerging Markets Equity Trader
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Matthew Long
Director, Private Markets Business Development
Matthew Long manages business development for private markets clients within Data, Valuation & Analytics at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He supports private equity and venture capital clients in using data and technology to develop more effective workflows for deal sourcing, investment analysis, and reporting. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Yale University.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Amanda Mentis
Executive Director and Head of U.S. ETF Capital Markets
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Shirzad Mohajerani
Product Specialist, Financial Risk Analytics
Shirzad Mohajerani is a financial risk specialist at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Shirzad brought six years of experience in capital markets, risk analytics, and front-office technology to the FRA team at S&P Global. His diverse experience in risk functions at pension fund, bank, and consulting firm formed his unique insight in developing automated risk tools and exposure models across asset classes. Shirzad holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and an M.Sc. in Financial Modeling from Western University in Canada and is recognized for his technical expertise in Python, SQL, and market data platforms, as well as his leadership in delivering innovative risk management solutions.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Gavan Nolan
Executive Director, Business Development and Research, Fixed Income Pricing
Gavan Nolan, a specialist in credit markets, is an Executive Director responsible for business development and co-heads research for Fixed Income Pricing at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
A published author, Gavan has written about the credit markets from the accounting scandals of the last decade through the financial and European sovereign debt crises. He is a well-known commentator on the credit default swaps (CDS) markets, including credit fundamentals and CDS mechanics, in particular ISDA definitions, credit events and auctions. He has been a frequent contributor to both print and broadcast media, and quoted in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones, Global Capital, CNBC and BBC's R4 Today programs. Gavan played a key role in developing the Markit CDS pricing product, the leading service in the CDS market. Prior to joining Markit in 2003, now S&P Global, he worked at J.P. Morgan and TD Securities in a variety of fixed-income roles.
Gavan holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Aisling O'Boyle
Executive Director, Global Head of ETF and Benchmarking Solutions Product Management
Aisling O'Boyle is the global head of the EBS Product Management team and is responsible for innovation and development of new products and technology to these business units.
Aisling joined the company in 2013 and has over 20 years of experience in financial services. Aisling has held several roles across Trading, Sales, Product and Relationship Management.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Juan Pienaar
Managing Director, Head of Derivatives Product Services
Juan is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in product management across derivative products and valuation control. He has led large teams in delivering high-impact product and operational solutions, combining deep expertise in valuation, and derivatives with emerging technologies in AI and data science.
Juan’s unique blend of financial acumen, product strategy, and technical innovation positions him as a trusted leader at the intersection of finance and technology.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Anand Popatlal
Executive Director, Derivatives Data Business Development
Anand joined Markit, now S&P Global, in 2010. He was initially a Totem Equities Analyst and then held various positions with cross-asset operational responsibility within Totem, before taking his current role as Totem business development lead where he drives the Totem vision and strategy. Anand brings over 15 years of derivatives experience working with sell side institutions in the valuations space.
Before joining S&P Global he worked at Merrill Lynch in the Global Wealth Management unit.
Anand holds a Masters of Science in Management from London School of Economics, University of London, UK and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from University College London, University of London, UK.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Anthony Rayar
Director, ETF Management Product Lead
Anthony is responsible for engaging with clients using Exchange-Traded Product and Benchmarking datasets in various capacities such as issuance, trading, market making, risk and compliance. Anthony's experience stems from his tenure at Bloomberg LP where he maintained the ETF dataset, collaborated with news and Bloomberg Intelligence to produce industry related research.
He has completed his undergraduate degree in Finance and Masters in Business Administration with a dual concentration in data analytics and supply chain analytics from Rutgers Business School.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Jeremy Reed
Managing Director, Product Management
In his role at S&P Global Market Intelligence, Jeremy is responsible for instrument level coverage, data quality and customer service for our Fixed Income Pricing and Reference Data products. During his tenure at S&P Global, Jeremy has performed a variety of evaluator and leadership roles within fixed income pricing. His experience has developed his knowledge across all asset classes, but he is specifically a corporate credit evaluations expert. Jeremy has been responsible for delivering numerous methodology enhancements within our Loan and Corporate pricing products. He is responsible for managing the company's Data Challenges System and oversees the fixed income pricing committee. In that role, he is responsible for approving methodology enhancements across products and reviewing market metrics that can lead to methodology changes. Prior to joining the company in 2007, he held fixed income analyst positions at Telekurs and Thomson Financial.
Jeremy a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Siena College and is a CFA charter holder.
LaMar Assets
Mark Rieder
Chief Investment Officer
Flat Rock Global
Ryan Ripp
Co-President, Chief Operating Officer
PGIM
Russ Shupak
Fund Treasurer and Vice President
Prudential Financial
Nicholas Silitch
Former Chief Risk Officer
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Vika Tambaeva
Research Analyst, Equity Data, AMER
Vika Tambaeva is the Dividend Research Analyst in AMER, Equity Data & Analytics at S&P Global Market Intelligence
Vika is responsible for dividend forecasting analysis in the American region with a focus on the United States and Canada. She leads the U.S. research initiatives at the S&P Global Research Team. Her primary coverage is the North American Energy Sector.
Vika holds an MBA degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College of New York, NY.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Frank Tarsillo
Chief Technology Officer
Frank Tarsillo is Chief Technology Officer at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He and his team drive the technical strategy, engineering and support across all product lines with a focus on modernization through use of cloud and enterprise data assets. He is also responsible for the firm's data scientists who are focused on how we can combine our leading data sets with advanced analytics to deliver innovative solutions to customers. Frank is a member of the division's operating committee.
Frank has more than 25 years of technical experience, leading technology teams to deliver revenue growth while elevating organizational productivity and security. He joined S&P Global as a result of the merger with IHS Markit in 2022, having served in senior leadership roles including Chief Architect and Partner. Prior to that, Frank spent 18 years at Thomson Reuters where he held numerous senior positions focused on product engineering and architecture within the financial services division.